Rheumatic Fever Reports

Saturday 23rd February 2019

These reports provide information on rheumatic fever cases reported in New Zealand. Rheumatic fever is a notifiable disease in New Zealand and these reports use data from EpiSurv, the national notifiable disease database.

The bi-annual reports present information on first episode rheumatic fever cases by age, ethnicity and DHB. The reports combine notification data from EpiSurv with hospitalisation data. Reports commenced in 2015, with the first report covering January to December 2014